7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In the preliminary task I was using far more simple editing techniques and it was a much more simple task.
In the progresion to this final task I feel that i have learnt to challenge myself and my imagination and to expand my limits. I feel that I have become much more comfortable with the technology provided.
I have become more familiar with the cameras and gotten used to setting them up in suitable posistions on location. When on location I feel that I have grown able to judge shots and angles in order to acheive the shots I need along with deciding how long to film for.

When editing i feel that my opinion of what looks professional has altered aswell and I have become more attentive to detail and more picky. This in turn has allowed me to create a much more professional piece. I have become more comfortable using sound effects and adding non-diegetic sounds to my piece.
I felt more confident in my ability to produce this product as time progressed and we had more hands on experiance filming and editing.
I feel that I have learnt a great deal in the time between my perliminary task and starting this final product and this has enabled me to finish my task to a high standard.

6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

After learning how to properly operate the digital cameras and edit using Adobe premier pro i found it very easy to complete these project.
This technology has enabled me to acheive my task as i was able to edit my film and its sound effects easliy and professionally.I have to been able to create 'jump cut' effects and to adjust the speed of my film.It has also been easier to creat transitional effects between scenes and with music. Therefore the technology has aided me in comlpeting my task as it has helped me make it exactly as planned.

I have learnt how to insert sound effects which i was unable to do before and i can now place them correctly in the exact section of film i want them to cover. I have also learnt to create fast edits between scenes.

Using the blogging system has helped me greatly as i have been able to keep a track of what i have been doing and it has been kept safe. It also means that I have been able to log exactly what i have done in the order that it has been done in so that everything is very well organised.

I have used a number of websites to help me research, mainly box office websites to find details of films of the same genre. I used these to find details such as gross intake and profits as well as story plots.I have also used youtube to research as i have watched trailers and scenes from similar films.

5)How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by posting our product on youtube where it is easily viewable.
We then asked for feedback for our piece.


I feel that we were successful in attracting our target audience. Our choice of titles made our product look very professional and resemble actual media products. Our audience felt that our choice of music and use of jump cuts made the product much more convincing and clearly showed the genre.
The audience found our product very exciting and said they would like to watch more. They felt that although our film was typical of the genre it also challenged ideoliges as the 'outcome' was at the start rather than at the end.
There was general positive feedback throughout. I think there was preferred reading as they accepted the messages we were putting forward and they clearly understood our text.



Below are some of the comments we received on our youtube post.

Thorgalw

It's a gun. Why would you run behind someone when you have a freaking gun?

PEW PEW PEW


Nice one though, what will be the next epic movie if I may ask?

JackM1337

Haha, nice! xD

hogwash2nd

5/5 Very nice, don't like the sitting down but i've already spoken to you about that. hm
Remember, the east is east but is west west? ;)

Our video also received 5/5 on the rating scale.

I feel that we attracted our target audience well as the language and 'banter' shown in the above comments reflect younger individuals. These are the type of people we were hoping to attract.